Author: RAMman
Date: 2004-04-14 12:30
Someone who knows...clearly doesn't know these players.
I'm from the UK, and anyway, since when does saying "Goodman always had an enourmous chip on his shoulder about what the classical world thought of him" and "If he recorded a true Benny Goodman version of the Copland, he would think the classical world was laughing at him behind his back" (this is my own statement, based on the evidence of the first), 'openly going out of the way to dis Goodman's playing'? Sounds more like his psycology (and I mean that with ABSOLUTELY no disrespect...I think he was a superb clarinet player).
During the coaching I have had on the Copland, I have had insight into Goodman's playing that I had not had before. This has caused me to form my opinions, based on appropriate knowledge and opinions from others who have been in the clarinet world longer than I have.
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